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The core activity of IPS is a global news agency producing independent news and analysis about events and global processes affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations, especially in the South. IPS is the news agency of Civil Society and the South, Development Issues, The Globalisation Process and of the People Excluded from It.

The flagship World Service of the agency presently covers over 150 countries. The service is produced in English and Spanish, with selected stories translated into French, German, Finnish, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Portuguese, Thai, Mandarin, Nepali and Kiswahili. The daily output is currently around 112000 words.

IPS coverage is focused on developing regions of the globe, but within the context of globalisation and its impacts. The stories cover topics like economy, politics, human rights and democratisation, environment and development. Strengthening the gender perspective in all IPS stories, and giving a voice to minorities and under-represented groups are editorial priorities.

The content of IPS World Service is written and edited from the perspective of the developing world. The overwhelming majority of the contributing journalists and editors are from developing countries, including those reporting from Europe, North America and Japan.

Visits to websites for IPS news, www.ipsnews.net and www.ipsnoticias.net, the regional websites as Here Africa, Asia American Voices, Our Mekong, or IPS Latam, and thematic and language-specific websites, are more than 1.5 million page views per month.

This figure does not include individuals who access the IPS editorial services through the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), OneWorld, Third World Network websites and Yahoo among many others who partner or pick-up IPS news for their web-sites.

IPS produces a daily fax and email digest of top stories for policy-makers and decision-takers all over the world.

TerraViva provides delegates, officials, observers and civil society groups with independent, balanced, issue-oriented coverage from conference rooms, official and unofficial negotiations, as well as external and sideline developments. The result is that TerraViva has a well-earned reputation as a reliable source of professional news and information and for shaping viewpoints.

 TerraViva - United Nations
The journal is made for policy-makers and decision-takers in the United Nations, development agencies and foundations in North America and Europe. Is sent to 250 recipients in New York and to subscribers in other cities hosting U.N. organisations: Geneva, Paris, Rome, Vienna and Nairobi.
See the Daily Journal web site at http://www.ipsdailyjournal.org

 TerraViva - Europe
Published by IPS EUROPE the TerraViva Europe serves European Union (EU) policy and decision-makers and their counterparts in the South. The journal reaches nearly 900 subscribers in the EU Commission, the European Parliament, diplomatic missions in Brussels and ACP countries and institutions, as well as a wide range of NGOs. It is available free of charge by email and on the IPS web site at: http://www.ipsterraviva.net.

 TerraViva - Africa / TerraViva - Spanish Edition
Produced by the IPS Latin American and African regional desks in Montevideo and Johannesburg, on a weekly basis, this bulletins reach thousands of policy- and decision-makers across Latin America and Spain, and in Africa.
See them at: http://www.ipsterraviva.net and http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/pdf/Terraviva_africa.pdf

 TerraViva - Conference Newspaper
TerraViva, the IPS conference newspaper was launched at the 1992 Rio Summit and has since made regular appearances at the subsequent major UN conferences, and at other civil society meetings and events. The most recent TerraViva conference newspapers were published in Geneva during the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society in December 2003, and in Mumbai during the World Social Forum in January 2004.

Through its links to hundreds of media organisations throughout the world and to its much-visited web site, IPS has also been an invaluable source for disseminating the message of conferences to a huge global audience.

Selected IPS stories are repackaged for radio in a daily or weekly basis and distributed by radio stations and partner radio networks, notably in Southern Africa and Latin America. The Latin American environmental project Tierramerica wires a weekly radio programme broadcast by hundreds of community, commercial and cultural stations, available in the site www.tierramerica.net; IPS Africa produces the Rip and Read Radio Service, available in the site Here Africa.

This service provides exclusive columns written by statesmen/women, officials, opposition leaders, opinion-makers, leading cultural figures and experts who offer insight on a broad range of issues and events. Columnists have included Kofi Annan, Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Dalai Lama, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Liljana Kornilova and others. The columns are bought by hundreds of media clients in the North and the South.

IPS carries out a very wide range of projects, internationally and regionally, usually with other communication and development partners. Some examples are highlighted below. See the page on projects and programmes for more information.

 Tierramérica
Tierramérica is the most important communications platform about environment and sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean, targeting opinion leaders and decision-makers in the public and private arenas, and civil society.

It's a cooperative project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with IPS serving as the executive agency, and associated to the Central American Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD) and the World Bank regarding the Central American chapter.

Outputs include a weekly page published in 24 newspapers in 14 countries; an interactive web-site at www.tierramerica.net; a weekly radio programme broadcast by community, commercial and cultural stations; information bulletins to thousands of development and environment policy and decision-makers.

 Gender Rights and HIV/AIDS

With a core product of news features researched and written by the professional network of IPS journalists in every region of the world, the work further encompasses training for journalists, networking with civil society and producing a training manual for the media, along with the wide dissemination of the information to media and civil society, particularly in Africa, the continent most affected by the pandemic.

 Magazine for International Cooperation
'KOMMUNIKATION GLOBAL - COMMUNICATE WORLDWIDE' - is the name of a monthly Magazine for International Cooperation, published by IPS EUROPA | IPS EUROPE.

The magazine was launched in August 2000 as part of a project funded by the state government of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW). The magazine carries articles in English and German on several aspects of international cooperation in a globalising world.

 On the Asian Migration Trail
The media project 'On the Asian Migration Trail' follows the human side of the migration phenomenon - the under-reported aspects of the issue that often take the backseat to reportage focusing on the economic or labou value of migrant workers.

This initiative by IPS Asia-Pacific, with support from Ford Foundation, aims to generate awareness, debate and analysis of migration issues through media in Asia, with particular focus on reproductive health and gender, and the social, emotional costs of migrating for work.

Globalization Insights ­ result of a joint project of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) with IPS EUROPE ­ consists of down-to-earth feature stories written by journalists from all over the world. In their stories a diverse group of mostly young journalists from Africa, Asia and Latin America has written about the perceptions and experiences of people as globalization unfolds in their environs. It contains 25 stories which provide a unique kaleidoscope of today’s globalised world. Three of the finest stories ­ written up by journalists from Nigeria, Mexico and Yemen ­ were chosen for a public presentation of Globalization Insights at the Embassy of Canada in Berlin on 12 May 2005.

 World Social Forum
IPS has had an outstanding presence at the World Social Forums (WSF) both through the production of the TerraViva daily, the Forum's independent newspaper, and the WSF independent journalistic site produced jointly with Le Monde Diplomatique.

At the same time, and in its capacity as a communications NGO, IPS coordinated some of the main debates in this strategic sector and organized special Seminars with other NGOs in the communications field. Acting as a bridge to other actors, like the World Economic Forum, is another important facet of this engagement, to construct spaces for dialogue.

 Media Watch Global
IPS joined with Le Monde Diplomatique to launch Media Watch Global (MWG) in Porto Alegre in January 2003. MWG is an international organisation dedicated to the support of fairness and accuracy in the world of information. This initiative speaks directly to the communication rights of journalists and citizens and is a part of the IPS response to the present climate for news-gathering and sharing.

 Partnerships
On-line communication partnerships have been encouraging. For example, IPS is reviewing its existing agreement with OneWorld to strengthen its presence in the Yahoo Internet portal. IPS is also working on an agreement with Panos for a new photographic service and to strengthen cooperation on HIV/AIDS reporting in Africa.

See the section on partnerships for more details.

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